New Webpage - http://www.kelleygrantbooks.com/

I decided I needed a bigger presence on the web so I have put up a website.  My blogging is moving to there.  http://www.kelleygrantbooks.com/http://www.kelleygrantbooks.com/

Press Release

http://harpervoyagerbooks.com/2014/06/12/voyager-impulse-to-publish-digital-submission-winners/

My first time on a press release. The Sand Sifters is listed with the group to be released in the next year. Look at the beautiful covers! Can't wait to see what artists do with the feli and Sulis of Sand Sifters!  Even with the excitement, got in 1,466 words today on Sand Cast.

Day 2

Writing at the Studio, after teaching Gentle Yoga. Not as big a block of time to write, but a good beginning on getting Sulis to stop feeling sorry for herself and introducing Grandmother Hasifel as a real character. Rewrote some of Chapter One - I find that it is important for me to reread what I wrote the last time and add to it before starting on new material. 

In another line of crazy - I was just added and created a log-in for a "BootCamp: digitalDish" project for HarperCollins Avon and Voyager writers. I am a part of a project team: one that by the email addresses seems to include Robin Hobb, Ilona Andrew, Vicki Pettersson and other authors I have read again and again. Whew. It really seems to be happening. Looking forward to actually getting my paws on the contract. It's been very surreal, like a dream. But sometimes it's the dream where every thing is golden and even butterflies adore you and land on your shoulders, and sometimes it feels like  that dream where you're mistaken for a rockstar and stuck on stage with a mic and all that comes out of your throat is "uhhhhh" as the crowd looks on.

A Book Contract

A very strange and wonderful thing happened last month.  I got an email from a publisher, HarperCollins to be precise, about The Sand Sifters.  They were having an unagented novel submission for two weeks in October of 2012. I submitted The Sand Sifters and Seeing Shadows. I got a basic, nonpersonalized rejection email in January of 2013 (no book names) and assumed it was either for both, or that one of the novels was lost in submission. We bought the Studio a couple months later and I gave up on writing and publishing for then.

Fast forward to May 9th. My wedding anniversary and date that I had my interview with HarperCollins - and my first book offer. They are giving me a Harper Voyager Impulse contract for The Sand Sifters and two sequels. I checked the offer with a couple agents who said it seemed typical and have accepted. The editor is hammering out the details and dates things need to be in by, edited by, and published by - then will send me the contract to sign. I am alternately over the moon and terrified I won't be able to meet the deadline and run Studio Om.  This should be one of the most interesting, amazing, learning experience of my 43 years. Onward and upward!